The similarity goes deeper than that, given that git uses Merkle trees as does Bitcoin. There's hashing and in the typical use case there is even some distribut

The similarity goes deeper than that, given that git uses Merkle trees as does Bitcoin. There's hashing and in the typical use case there is even some distributed consensus process involved although often in git human decision making takes the place of an algorithm. Some good discussion here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46192377/why-is-git-not-considered-a-block-chain https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46192377/why-is-git-not-... I think the water gets muddied by people who know very little and yet have an opinion as well as by people who know so much they can't see the forest for the trees (if you'll allow the pun).